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A Beginner’s Guide to Poker. Interesting reading if you’re completely clueless at it like me.

New Poll: Tell me your opinion on the boob seen ’round the world…

Sometimes the news is just full of good things. Like today, for instance:

• The International Cricket Board is considering a Cricket Super Series that would pit the #1 team in the world (currently Australia) against an all-star team from all the other cricketing nations. That would just ROCK. I tried to think of an American equivalent but we really aren’t that great at team sports that the rest of the world plays.
• Massachusetts Ruling Clears Way for Gay Marriage. Fantastic. I can’t wait to start shopping for a wedding gift for Ron and Marlin.
• Scientists have suggested that they could genetically modify farm animals to produce omega-3 fatty acids. As a carnivore with a lifelong distaste for fish, I say BRING IT ON!

What’s making you smile today?

Check it out: My first Ask Metafilter post!

I was reading through Glitter today when I stumbled across a link to this awesome website dedicated to Women’s Weight Training. There is so much information here! The author, Krista, went from being a stubby nerd girl to one strong lookin’ chick. I am inspired.

HTTPanties. Woohoo! Another project for my iron-on transfer paper. 🙂

Kevin and I nearly drove off the road this morning while listening to JJJ*. Adam and Will were talking with the news guy about today’s scandal over the introduction of Kahlua flavoured Mint Slices and Tia Maria flavoured Tim Tams**. Adam joked that he’d only eat a Kahlua Tim Tam after first downing about eighteen beer flavoured ones. Will then immediately burst out with “I’d love a C**k-Sucking Tim Tam!” There was about five seconds of stunned silence before the newsreader managed, “I don’t see what that has to do with the issue, Will…” They had to explain it to him later. Hee!***

* JJJ is the national alternative public radio station.
** They’re both kinds of cookies. Tim Tams are like a national obsession.
*** A “C**k-Sucking Cowboy” is a shooter. Thanks to Will’s parody, I think it’s only a matter of time before somebody introduces the “Tim Tam” version though.

Wondering about alternative medicine…
My allergies have been pretty bad this summer and the big 180mg Telfast pills are getting less effective. What’s a sniffly girl to do? Pseudoephedrine makes me feel wacky so that’s out. In desperation, I caved to a co-worker’s recommendation and today got some Brauer Homeopathic Hayfever Relief. Now I feel kind of silly though, and I keep hearing Pa Snook’s voice in my head telling me that it’s snake oil. Do any of you guys use homeopathy? I’m supposed to spray this stuff under my tongue when I get up in the morning and then every four hours til bedtime. (Why under the tongue? Why is that special? There’s a mystery here.) No results yet, but it least it doesn’t taste too bad.

On a similar note, my boss just got back from a visit to his new osteopath. He got diagnosed with all kinds of food allergies. I’m like, “How in the world do they test for that in a one-hour visit?” He started explaining the process, which involves the patient holding the suspect food to his chest with his left hand while holding his right arm out and resisting pressure from the doctor. I’m not making this up. If you have an allergy to the particular food, you won’t be able to resist and your arm will fall. “What, you have to hold the food to your bare chest?” I asked. Nope. Just through your clothes. And the food itself can still be packaged! He actually dragged me into the kitchen and demonstrated with a liter of milk. I stood there like a dope holding the bottle to my chest and resisting with my arm. But lo and behold when he did it, his arm fell as “proof” of his allergy. I am super skeptical here. I could maybe see it if you were holding the food to your nose or something, or if you held it to your skin and it left a mark, but there’s no way I can believe that a food allergy is so strong as to affect your bicep muscle merely while being held in the opposite hand through layers of packaging.

Now I’m wondering if the bottle of homeopathic spray on my desk undermines my righteous skepticism over the osteopath…

Serial Comma Vindication
For four years now I’ve had British and Australian people correct me when I write things like “I had bacon, eggs, and toast for breakfast.” They all omit the second comma in the list. Even the Snook told me he was taught it that way in school. Now I have conclusive proof that my way is correct though! I will never again cave in to comma-omitting pressure.

More carbalicious cravings… Chocolate Zucchini Cake. *drool* (Link courtesy of virulent memes.)